Tan Sri Johari Abdul hoped that the upcoming Parliamentary session, which starts on Oct 9, would be filled with quality debates and ideas for building the nation.
The Dewan Rakyat Speaker said at the Concorde Club meeting on Friday (Oct 6) that Members of Parliament should talk about nation-building and the country's future, instead of getting stuck with small issues.
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The Dewan Rakyat Speaker said at the Concorde Club meeting on Friday (Oct 6) that Members of Parliament should talk about nation-building and the country's future, instead of getting stuck with small issues.
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00:00 If you move forward, you want to move forward, you have to have good quality MPs, talk about nation building.
00:08 The MPs that talk about the future, about tomorrow, 300 years, 400 years to come.
00:14 What kind of country you dream of. I mean that is what MPs are all about.
00:19 The moment you walk in, into the parliament, you should never dream.
00:23 I want this country to be this way, this way, this way.
00:26 But if you stuck in the 3R, if you stuck on small, small issue,
00:31 you stuck about something that is not an MP kind of standard,
00:38 then we go nowhere and we keep on going around and around for the last what, how many, three sessions only.
00:44 We are not moving forward.
00:47 So this is where I was very frustrated to listen to this thing.
00:52 So I have, even I'm thinking, what should I do?
00:58 Then I have decided to open up the parliament to be understood by the society what parliament is all about.
01:07 So that young people are interested.
01:09 Now, survey shows that young people are very much interested to listen to the debate
01:15 because they were looking forward to debate of the parliament.
01:18 So if you say that now I begin to open up, some people are coming in.
01:22 I may not get 100% but at least start with 20%, 25%.
01:27 So that a lot of young people would like to listen and follow what's going on in the parliament.
01:32 I think that is important.
01:34 But in the meantime, I've got to prepare programs for them to come in.
01:38 Physically look, this is what parliament is about.
01:41 And thirdly, how do I get them involved?
01:45 So here we have Parlimen Belia.
01:48 Parlimen Belia is started by Kementerian Belia Nesukan.
01:52 But when the Kementerian Belia Nesukan handed to me the program,
01:58 they said, "Mr. Speaker, I think you better handle this program."
02:03 I said, "Okay."
02:04 But now I'm using this Parlimen Belia, which is in existence at the moment,
02:10 as an incubator.
02:15 So that I want it to be a mirror image of what is happening at the moment.
02:19 So if I can do that, then I can reduce this age from--now it's 18--
02:25 but as early as 16 to 25,
02:29 then let even society get involved in selecting their young parliamentarians to be in the parliament.
02:37 This is where I think we can work such problems somewhere.
02:40 This is what I'm doing.
02:41 At the same time, I have the Open Day.
02:45 That will be a yearly event, two days.
02:50 Last year we had 10,000 people visit the parliament.
02:55 Oh, this year, sorry, this year.
02:56 In May.
02:58 Then probably we'll do it every year, so that we're inviting more people to come in.
03:02 So the whole idea is just to expose the society to the parliament,
03:08 so that I will attract good young people to be interested to be in the parliament
03:14 and be our future leaders.
03:15 That's what I'm saying.
03:16 Thank you.
03:18 [end]